Re: dist-upgrade and perl
"Stephen R. Gore" wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005
> > for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They
> > are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and
> > not perl_5.005.03, and so the package `name' is perl-5.005 and
> > not simply `perl'.
> >
> > I don't know if it was supposed to replace perl-5.004
> > automatically.
>
> ---end quoted text---
>
> Yes, I realize they are different packages. But is it possible that
> for a script to depend on perl-5.005 features? I don't know perl well
> at all, so I have no clue except for the behaviour I mentioned in my
> previous post.
Those that do should probably have a `versioned depends' on
perl-5.005. But this topic is out of my experience so I'll shut
up now.
Peter
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